The Ventura Hillsides Music Festival is offering sponsorship opportunities to businesses and individuals. Sponsors receive a number of premiums in the form of tickets and advertising benefits.

The 7th annual festival will take place Sunday, September 6, 2009 in Ventura's Arroyo Verde Park. Past sponsors have included Chipotle, Kipp, Brandt, Drummond, Ventura Toyota, Ventura County Star, Rabobank, Gold Coast Broadcasting, and many others. Sponsorship information packets are available at the land trust’s website, www.venturahillsides.org.

Each year for the last five years, the Ventura Hillsides Music Festival has magically balanced great music and community spirit while focusing awareness on the natural places that inspire and sustain us. The Ventura Hillsides Music Festival is the premier fundraising event for the Ventura Hillsides Conservancy, a nonprofit land trust working cooperatively to permanently protect the hillsides and open space in the Ventura region for public recreation, preservation of scenic views and native habitat conservation. The land trust currently protects two natural area properties, and is in discussions with many other landowners.

Since its inception in 2003, VHMF has become one of the most-anticipated events in the area. Each year the music festival brings to Ventura an extraordinary line up of musicians. Sell-out audiences fully appreciate the world class performances and the unique outdoor setting right in the midst of the hillside lands that the Conservancy seeks to protect. The musicians, over 150 volunteers and more than 50 sponsors and business partners have contributed to make each concert an unequivocal success.

Festival sponsorships serve dual purposes: businesses are recognized as environmental stewards, earning the patronage of thousands of enthusiastic concertgoers and the funds gained provide important financial assistance for the Conservancy’s conservation work.